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Congratulations to Italian Senior Instructor, Priscilla Craven, for receiving the 2017 Best Should Teach Gold Award.

Photo by Craig Levinsky Outgoing Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, Valerio Ferme, and his spouse, Giorgio Corda, a professor of Italian at the University of Colorado Boulder, have established the Andermarch Cicogna Endowed Scholarship Fund. In alternating years, the scholarship will...

French Fiction Today focuses on the French novel in the twenty-first century, examining a series of works that are exemplary of broader currents in the genre. Each of these texts wagers insistently upon our willingness to speculate about literature and its uses, in an age when the value of literature...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau face au public: problèmes d’identité by Masano Yamishita Masano Yamashita examines the articulation between Rousseau's rhetorical strategies of addressing the reader and his philosophical conception of communication. Her book, Jean-Jacques Rousseau face au public: problèmes d'identité , highlights the originality and the lucidity of Rousseau faced with the...

Tuesday, April 25 at 5:00 p.m. in HUMN 125 Reception to follow on 1st floor in Eaton Humanities What does it mean to be an Italian abroad today? This photographic essay invites us to explore the common background elements leading Italians to migrate, but also the specific characteristics of migration...

The Rematch 2017! French students vs. Italian students! Who will win this time? Come show your soccer spirit and cheer on your classmates! Wednesday, April 26th at 4:30 p.m. at Sewall Field, near the Rec Center. Contact Susanna Saurini for more info.

Thursday April 27, 2017 at 5 p.m. in HUMN 125 Reception will follow in HUMN 350 Award winning Lebanese author Charif Majdalani will discuss the just released English Translation of his novel Moving the Palace. The book is a modern day Odyssey: recounting the story of a young Lebanese adventurer...

Enjoy the local premieres of six recent, critically acclaimed Italian films at the 2017 Italian Film Festival USA of Boulder. All films shown in original language with English subtitles on the campus of the University of Colorado-Boulder. Sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, CU’s Department of French and...

Tuesday, March 14th at 5:00 pm Center for British and Irish Studies-Norlin Library Marlene Daut is associate professor of English at UVA. Her first book, “Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789-1865” examined the connection between 18th and 19th c...

Tuesday, March 14 in HUMN 190 at 2:00 PM Presented by ITAL 2130:Tavola Italiana - Incontro con lo scrittore italiano Gaetano Barreca​ Come join us for a video conference with Italian writer Gaetano Barreca. He will talk about his fairytale, 'Lo Scoiattolino Pasticcione e L'Albero dei Sognidesiderio'. The presentation wil be in Italian.